This programme is suitable for
Who is funded? (Eligible to apply)
  • Majority privately owned domestic and foreign companies (manufacturing, crafts, trade and other services) 
  • Municipal enterprises 
  • Freelances 
  • Contractors who carry out measures for a company eligible to apply for funding 
  • Farmers (only module 2 and under Art. 41 of the general block exemption regulation) 
  • Non-profit, economically active applicants 

Excluded from funding are municipalities and their dependent municipal enterprises as well as companies that are subject to exclusion from funding under state aid law. 

What is funded? (Purpose)

Individual investment measures to increase energy efficiency through the use of highly efficient technologies available on the market. Eligible investments are those for the replacement or new procurement of high-efficiency systems or aggregates for industrial and commercial use. 

  • Module 1: cross-sectional technologies (individual investment measures to increase energy efficiency through the use of highly efficient technologies available on the market) 
  • Module 2: provision of process heat from renewable energies, such as measures to provide process heat from solar collectors and biomass systems, heat pumps 
  • Module 3: measurement and control technology, sensors and energy management software 
  • Module 4: energy-related optimisation of plants and processes 
  • Auxiliary charges 
  • Contracting 
The funding is granted, in what amount? (The type and amount of support)

Loans. 

Up to 100% of the eligible investment costs are financed. The loan amount is usually up to €25 million per project. It is not possible to increase the loan or the repayment subsidy after the loan has been approved. 

Term: 

  • Up to 5 years with no more than 1 repayment-free initial year (5/1) 
  • Up to 10 years with no more than 2 repayment-free initial years (10/2) 
  • No more than 20 years with no more than 3 repayment-free initial years (20/3) 

Interest rate: The interest rate is fixed for a maximum of 10 years. For loans with a term of more than 10 years, the principal bank receives an offer to extend before the end of the fixed-interest period. The loan is committed with a customer-specific interest rate within the framework of the maximum interest rate of the respective price class applicable on the day of commitment. 

You do not receive your loan directly from KfW but from a financing partner such as your bank. 

Contact information

Via principal bank to KfW 

Tel.: +49 (0) 800 539 90 01 (the call is free of charge) 

Further information
Ansprechpartner

Via principal bank to KfW 

Tel.: +49 (0) 800 539 90 01 (the call is free of charge)